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Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Teresa fantasized about falling in love as much as any other teenager growing up. But because Teresa never saw people like her on TV or in movies — people living with disabilities — she could never really SEE herself having that kind of romantic relationship. That all changes when Teresa heads off to college. Support our independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Nora also writes sad & funny books! You can buy them here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.9	Okay, so Teresa, will you introduce yourself and tell us your name?
1:04.9	Hi, I'm Teresa Nguyen.
1:08.9	Right, and where are you calling in from?
1:12.9	I am calling in from Denver, Colorado.
1:16.9	Gorgeous, gorgeous. We love it there.
1:20.9	Yeah. So we're both in Mountain Standard Time and I like to start my conversations
1:24.9	talking about two things, time zones or the weather. And I think for us, we get to talk
1:29.6	about both because, you know, we're both in the same time zone. That's a cool thing.
1:39.9	I'm Nora McNeerney and this is Terrible. Thanks for asking a podcast about time zones and
1:45.9	weather, a podcast about all the hard things in life and how it really feels to go through
1:51.5	them. Things like love. To paraphrase the Bible, which I have skimmed, love is weird and
1:58.9	cool, sometimes really terrible. We are lucky if we find it. But before we find love, we
2:07.4	think about love. We dream about love. We fantasize about what love is and what it will be
2:12.9	like to find it. In high school, I think I fantasized about relationships as much as
2:21.3	any other teenager. And I also grew up in a very, you know, structured Catholic family.
2:30.2	And so I pictured myself and really wanted and desired a partner, a husband, who, you
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